Erin O’Connor 🦄

knitter, cook, artist, computational linguist, type 1 diabetic, collector of snowclones, SoCal transplant, mother of unicorns, city hiker.

[Erin O’Connor 🦄 @kirinqueen]

no one knows what an algorithm is

[Erin O’Connor 🦄 @kirinqueen]

@MidwifeKT I’m old too. “Body count” has a strong sense that correlates with “body bag.”

[Erin O’Connor 🦄 @kirinqueen]

@UrbanHikerSF @bl My 5yo daughter picks fennel to snack on every day. blackberries are our favorite.

[Erin O’Connor 🦄 @kirinqueen]

@swifteves @erynofwales I’ll be there in December and am VERY interested in this.

[Katie Mack @AstroKatie]

We got tricked by science fiction into thinking a futuristic city is all about flying cars and crystal towers and hologram billboards but what it really looks like is nice apartment blocks, good mass transit, pedestrian zones with shade trees and safe bike lanes.

[Erin O’Connor 🦄 @kirinqueen]

@perich Strong agree!

[Erin O’Connor 🦄 @kirinqueen]

@JesseThorn pour one out for my girl Julia Morgan!

[Monica Byrne @monicabyrne13]

What I had to say about AI in 2018, and pretty much what I say today.

[Erin O’Connor 🦄 @kirinqueen]

the Hindi for “and” is “or” (और, anglicized “aur”), which I’m told @badedgecases would appreciate.

[Erin O’Connor 🦄 @kirinqueen]

happy First of May everyone! https://t.co/pgjiaiY5FL

[Erin O’Connor 🦄 @kirinqueen]

@anawesomenicole So nothing has changed in 11 years huh? 😢

[Erin O’Connor 🦄 @kirinqueen]

aw, MBTA commuter rail, y u no have power outlets? some of us have laptops with no battery life.

[Erin O’Connor 🦄 @kirinqueen]

@maggim Bread, peanut butter, bread.

[Erin O’Connor 🦄 @kirinqueen]

@gfrancie Yep, tells me I would have very little to talk about with that person. Blech.

[Roberta D'Alessandro @RobertaArielli]

I keep hearing that “you linguists agree on nothing” as if we were some sort of charlatains pretending to do science. So here are some things we all agree on, independently of the framework, and many people find surprising and counterintuitive. 1/

[fredesque @FredTaming]

normalize women naming their daughters after themselves. we need some susan jrs around here

[Amy Adams @amybetic]

The number of things that impact blood glucose levels

[Erin O’Connor 🦄 @kirinqueen]

@rmondello “they are 32 years old” vs “they are a 32-year-old”. So many purportedly copy-edited texts with dashes in the former.

[Aydin Kwan @heyakwan]

Recently, an acquaintance in tech asked me what, in my experience as a public librarian, makes websites and apps unusable to people with limited technology access, and after a few days thinking about it, I’m gotta put one of the biggest ones as two-factor authentication.

[Erin O’Connor 🦄 @kirinqueen]

@gfrancie Damn straight.

[Chris D'Angelo @c_m_dangelo]

really feels like having an apostrophe in your name shouldn't render your name invalid